Building Cultural Sustainability in the Digital Age
‘Innovation,’ ‘disruption’ and ‘openness’ are all terms that can be twisted to serve business imperatives.
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Culture of Resistance
Bosnia: Protests Continue Despite Contradictions
A pair of AKL activists recently visited Tuzla and spoke with people involved in the citizens’ assemblies and protests there.
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Squatting for Reform?
A squatted social center isn’t just a building for concerts and workshops, but a site that mobilizes resistance against state and capital, not just in the content of its programs but in its very existence; this basis in structural defiance of the law marks the difference between a pacified faux-radical target market and an actual culture of resistance.
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Viva Belarus!
In Belarus, a vibrant artistic and cultural life finds its way past censorship, totalitarian control, and general apathy to produce little gems like this film.
The Role of Palestinian Women in Resistance
Despite deeply rooted patriarchy, for decades Palestinian women have played an integral role in resistance. Without the emancipation of women, national liberation will not be achieved.
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Journey Through a Counterculture
The Bohemian immigrants to Chicago and Cleveland, two big centers where they settled, were linked with Chicago anarchists…who were themselves a very bohemian bunch in the 1880s.
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Sunset, Sunrise: Threnody for Child Victims of State Violence
Written in remembrance of the children who, for all of our striving for freedom and justice, for all our craving for respect for our existence, have been murdered by the police and the military, by officers and presidents.
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Bosnian Basics
It’s misleading for the international community to say the citizens of Bosnia need to take ownership of their own issues, but then when they take that phrase literally, to say, “oh, that’s not what we had in mind.”
Berkin Elvan lebt
Die Küsten des Mittelmeers stehen in Flammen. Nichts wird jemals wieder so sein wie früher.
1989: Not the ‘End of History’ in Venezuela Either
It’s different to establish a council through state intervention than it is to see one established on a grass-roots level, spontaneously, from below.
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